86. GRAMINA. 221 



Native. Littoral. An unsatisfactory species to the 

 botanical geographer ; the line of distinction between it 

 and F. duriuscula being so ill-defined that stations of the 

 latter are perhaps not unfrequently recorded for the pre- 

 sent species. In indicating the area and censvis, I am 

 almost compelled to assume that any creeping (stolonife- 

 rous) Festuca of the shores, whether found on dry sand or 

 on tide-washed loam, is properly to be assigned to F. 

 rubra. 



1345. Festuca syi,vatica, Vill. 

 13-45, b. Festuca decidua, Sm. 



Ai^ea * 2 * * 5 * * * * 10 11 12 * 14 15 16. 



South limit in Sussex, Wilts. 



North limit in Moray, Perth, Dumbarton. 



Estimate of provinces 8. Estimate of counties 15. 



Latitude 50 — 58. Scottish (?) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Channel ? 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Eange of mean annual temperature 50 — 47. 



Native. Sylvestral. Very thinly scattered in propor- 

 tion to the extent of its area in Britain, and apparently 

 more i^revalent in the northern provinces, than in the 

 southern, although unknown in the extreme north. My 

 specimens are all from northern counties ; namely, from 

 York, Edinbiu'gh, Perth, Moray. But the authorities for 

 the more southern counties appear ample ; namely, for 

 Sussex (Mr. Borrer), Wilts (Mr. T. B. Flower), Gloucester 

 (Mr. F. J. A. Hort), Worcester (Midi. Flora, &c.), Stafford 

 (Garner, N. H. S.). 



